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JISC Plagiarism Detection Service

JISC Plagiarism Detection Service. Key Points: Provided by JISC for 2 years free of charge Service easy to use, no specialist software required - just web browser Users set up and working in minutes

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JISC Plagiarism Detection Service

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  1. JISC Plagiarism Detection Service • Key Points: • Provided by JISC for 2 years free of charge • Service easy to use, no specialist software required - just web browser • Users set up and working in minutes • Assignments can be submitted by staff or students, singly or in bulk in a wide range of file formats, eg .doc, .pdf, .html David Gardner, Learning Development Unit, March 2003

  2. JISC Plagiarism Detection Service • Compares work against: • previously submitted material, • over 800,000,000 websites • essays from cheat sites • Provides a colour-coded 'originality report’ highlighting text within the assignment that has been found at another source, and provides links to it David Gardner, Learning Development Unit, March 2003

  3. JISC Plagiarism Detection Service • Is a complete service which we must use as is or not at all • The University has signed a legally binding agreement to the terms and conditions of the service • Staff who want to use the system must sign ‘Document D’' to authorise iParadigms to hold personal data, which are linked to work submitted by your students • Students automatically give permission for use of this system when they register for their course. David Gardner, Learning Development Unit, March 2003

  4. JISC Plagiarism Detection Service • Documentation University, staff and students have to sign has been cleared with University of Leeds Legal Adviser • We have, independently of JISC and HEFCE secured written confirmation from iParadigms that they will abide by EU data protection legislation • If you are contacted by someone from another institution in response to the system having spotted similarities between work submitted at the two institutions, you must not give any personal information whatsoever about the student at the University of Leeds. Official policy is not even to confirm or deny that anyone is registered at the University. David Gardner, Learning Development Unit, March 2003

  5. JISC Plagiarism Detection Service • We have developed a Plagiarism website http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/lt/plagiarism.htm • From our site you can access information and documentation about the service including, from the JISC website, an Instructor User Manual and a Student User Manual • To use the Univesity of Leeds account on the system follow the link from our website to the registration form • Important: Plagiarism detection software is only one tool in a plagiarism reduction/prevention strategy - see links on our website for other tools/techniques/information David Gardner, Learning Development Unit, March 2003

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